William Blackstone was a eighteenth century Englishman that was a proud member of Parliament‚ though many would suggest that his views completely discounted the thought of the British Sovereignty. Though later his beliefs to devise the English Common Law would bring to life America’s craving for independence from the Crown. Blackstone was the philosopher that stated‚ "The absolute rights of man... are usually summed up in one general appellation...of acting as one thinks fit."(Blackstone) In thought
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telecommunications companies in the UK‚ launched a formal hostile bid for Mannesmann‚ one of its largest peer companies based in German. Mannesmann has just acquired another large UK wireless operator‚ Orange. Vodafone first offered Mannesmann €138 billion‚ or €266/share‚ which is way higher than its valuation a few weeks ago. But Mannesmann rejected this tender offer and asked for €350/share. Vodafone has to decide whether it should raise the bid or not and how to respond to the issues brought by the German
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SAP was founded in 1972 and today they are recognized as the world’s largest inter-enterprise software company. Their products cater to various sectors of industry and every dynamic market. Their diverse software products have placed them as the third largest independent software supplier and their continuing excellence makes them a premier software company. The superb technological advances they have achieved in software have allowed SAP to maintain a high regard of respect from other major corporations
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COMPUTRON INC. CASE I. Problem Identification: What bid price should Computron Inc. set‚ so that the Computron can achieve management’s profits target‚ match the customer’s requirement and be competitive with respect to the competitors? II. Alternatives: 1) Bid Price: $ 746‚880.00 within 20% offered by Digitex pricing of $ 622‚400. - Will sell less than factory cost of $ 768‚000‚ hence no profit and reduces cash flow required for future investments. - Computron will lose premium quality
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Essay Title: "The Irish State need not be so heavily involved in health or education". Discuss with reference to one or both of these areas of welfare state activity. I have chosen to discuss whether or not I think that the Irish state need not be so involved in Health and Education in our country. I think that it is important that the state is involved with these issues within our country. Ireland is by definition a "welfare state"‚ that is‚ a system whereby the government undertakes to protect
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Questions: 1. Propose an organizational structure for the IT department that you feel would support the transformation of AgCredit into a process-centric organization. Recognition of business ownership will be vital to the organizational structure. Having the business sign on and join the conversation about IT and related projects will be instrumental. A steering committee will be need to be part of the approval process of all projects is needed to make sure an enterprise view is taken. The
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BLACKSTONE AND THE SALE OF CITIGROUP’S LOAN PORTFOLIO Market Conditions (I) • Corporate credit expansion in the U.S. between 2001 and the first half of 2007 was driven almost exclusively by the inflow of institutional (non-bank) funding into the syndicated loan market. • The participation of a wide range of institutional investors (including structured funds known as collateralized loans obligations (CLOs)‚ hedge funds‚ mutual funds‚ pension funds‚ and insurance companies) in the corporate loan
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Unqualified Audit Report An opinion is said to be unqualified when the Auditor concludes that the Financial Statements give a true and fair view in accordance with the financial reporting framework used for the preparation and presentation of the Financial Statements. An Auditor gives a clean opinion or Unqualified Opinion when he or she does not have any significant reservation in respect of matters contained in the Financial Statements. The most frequent type of report is referred to as the "Unqualified
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Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! WHY? Microsoft had long been eyeing at merging with Yahoo! since 2006‚ the two companies explored and discussed how they might work together for some time‚ however the proposal was rejected by Yahoo!‚ by saying that was “not the right time from the perspective of shareholders” in 2007. The repeated turndowns‚ however‚ didn’t make Microsoft give up. In January 2008‚ Microsoft proposed to Yahoo! again to achieve industry consolidation and convergence. In the letter
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